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Re: What are you watching?

Post by aether » Thu Oct 09, 2025 11:50 pm

Why didn't the USSR annex Poland?


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Re: What are you watching?

Post by Catoptric » Sat Oct 11, 2025 1:06 am

Fonejacker (Kayvan Novak, 2007 British Series) Prank calls

Download option https://archive.org/details/fonejacker- ... h.265-hevc

It was around 2002 that Crank Yankers ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crank_Yankers ) had something similar (and I always thought it was a pretty obnoxious show. Incidentally I recall someone who was profoundly gifted (Rick Rosner) who joined up with the caste of the show by writing jokes. He forged his ID to remain in high school until age 26 (by attending different ones but incidentally it also means he would be accused of statutory rape if he was found out) and ate dog food while working at a pet shelter because he was so poor, as well as obsessed about a game show which he insists the answer he gave was technically correct. It seems he only voiced one of the characters on one occasion, so it probably wasn't much that he did with it. https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/ ... me_of_the/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_G._Rosner

The best and brightest. . .

Century Falls (Colin Cant, 1993)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... y_jVEnYfwv

Download option (MP4 is Russian, and MKV second audio file is English) https://archive.org/details/century-falls-episode-4

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PLANET OF THE APES - TV Series (1974)



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Reminders of people like Marion Stokes who attempt to preserve history using 71,000 VHS tapes (that she only managed to do because she invested early on in Apple computers and had enough money to own multiple properties where she devoted 24 hrs a day just hitting the record button.) If you thought brain rot using the internet was bad today, just imagine what going through history will do for an AI to make sense of, if it manages to do it (when entire states already devote a third of their energy to datacenters, who are only analyzing useless garbage if not outright creating the garbage consumption that our society has become dependent on.)

I equate the phenomenon of "reality," to that in which we delude ourselves about our own infallibility, that few would be honest with themselves, if they weren't entirely deluded.

What we perceive as "truth" is a hallucination brought about by our need for impermanence, in the same way that our vision "fills in" the gap that our inverted eyeballs rearrange, in order to make sense of the world and all it's flaws and limitations.

And people will distort the truth if it makes their own impermanence even more infallible.

And people don't want to admit just how unlikely the entirety of those tapes will become available, unless it's accessible using extremely large datacenters and processed and categorized using AI, at a time when massive collections of movies have remained stuck in archives waiting to be restored and cataloged while left to deteriorate; and practically "lost to time," just the same.

And to assume that the vast majority of people within our lifetime even catch a glimpse of what has existed, or will continue to exist, is kind of traumatizing, when you realize that history will repeat itself, and that society will be constantly battling itself to preserve what history remains from all that's been lost.

It's a Sisyphean attempt to catch that few percentage of all recorded human existence, similarly to how the majority of records done by scribes might only exist because someone didn't completely erase and write over previous records (similar to the Apollo 11 telemetry tapes being lost?)

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And while reviewing Black Mirror and adding cover art to the video files:

Trump reference in Black Mirror (2013) S02E03 The Waldo Moment
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Re: What are you watching?

Post by Catoptric » Tue Oct 14, 2025 12:48 am




An insane amount of music videos (most are an hour long and have visuals.)


And something similar called Soulwax




AI enhanced Stephen King's IT (1990) (though I kind of prefer the matte look, even if this is decent. It does appear to be about 3 minutes shorter of the usual versions, which seems to happen around the 1hr 34 minute mark when the movie would begin with the miniseries version for the second part, which in the standalone version it cuts out the scene when he goes to a hotel, as well as a casual interaction with the a cab driver about changes to the area, which otherwise cuts right to the cemetery scene in this version. That in addition to the end credits of the first, explains the difference with this. Often I would keep different versions but I may just omit this.



Psychedelic in the Sky (UFO Contactee) (Matthew Salton, 2025)


More: https://vimeo.com/matthewsalton


Charlie Kirk anomolies.
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1CoDXT23cc/
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Re: What are you watching?

Post by aether » Fri Oct 17, 2025 1:35 am

I had no idea. :shock:

North America’s most geographically unique city: Madison Wisconsin


Cologne before the war - The Rings (colorized) - Cologne´s Ring-boulevard - pre-war (colorized)


The Strange Death of the Hipster Sub-Culture Explained


America Will Be the Last Superpower, Here’s Why


Africa’s coast is bad for boats #map #geography

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Re: What are you watching?

Post by Catoptric » Sat Oct 18, 2025 5:07 pm

Altamides, First Wap, etc

The Surveillance Empire That Tracked World Leaders, a Vatican Enemy, and Maybe You
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/20 ... -wojcicki/

Peter Theil says, "hold my beer!"


I suggest setting up a Google notification which allows you to remove online data. I keep on deleting data broker and online searchable content (even though I'm still fairly loose with info.)

https://myactivity.google.com/
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